AFSCME Council 57

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We are AFSCME

AFSCME Council 57 is comprised of 23 local unions representing 27,000 members throughout Northern California and the Central Valley. Established in 1963, the Council was formed as a progressive, member-driven labor organization dedicated to empowering and securing dignity and respect for all workers. We work together to improve wages, benefits and working conditions through organizing, collective bargaining and political action. We represent workers in schools and community colleges, transit agencies, public works and services, clinics and hospitals, and water and wastewater facilities. Our members are also the health and social service professionals in corrections facilities across California.

We support our local unions by:

Providing resources, training and professional services

Fighting for economic and social justice

Raising awareness on issues that affect working families

Empowering members in representation and bargaining

Mobilizing workers to participate in the political process

Sharing effective communication and resources

Organizing unorganized workers

We also partner with other labor organizations, service providers, consumers, the faith community and community-based organizations to:

ensure the health and vitality of working families and their communities

seek solutions to critical issues like the healthcare and mental health crisis as well as climate change

raise awareness of wasteful contracting out of public services

stop attacks on public sector workers

fix California’s inequitable tax policies

Council 57 is affiliated with the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees, a democratic union with 1.6 million members who share a common commitment to public service in our communities. We also encourage our locals to affiliate with their local arm of the AFL-CIO, the Central Labor Council.